Comments on: Make Money on Ebay

By: Jane Scott

Jane Scott — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:44:19 +0000

A friend of mine is making money on eBay and she was making $2000 a week and convinced me to start my own. She told me about this software helped her serve customers better. She said it was able to provide her customers with both digital and physical products with the Instant Digital Delivery they always desire. Check out this website for more information… http://www.myautomatedauctionmachine.com. I already have it and excited to be using it soon and make more money like my friend. Hope this helps you guys too.

By: Steve C | MyWifeQuitHerJob

Steve C | MyWifeQuitHerJob — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:41:57 +0000

It’s gotten much harder to make money on Ebay thanks to their ridiculous fees. These days, when all is said and done, Ebay takes between 12-14% of your final selling price.

By: Bonnie Sayers

Bonnie Sayers — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:47:00 +0000

I have purchased coupons on ebay for like baby wipes and soymilk. No idea how they get them done and so many, but it was worth the $1.50, I like the ones that have some time before they expire.

I bought my previous minivan on ebay motors, it was a rush at the end when someone showed up and outbid me by $250 and I won in the last minute.

By: ChristianPF

ChristianPF — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:25:11 +0000

Lazy man,
this is kinda funny that you are writing about this now… I just finished a post about starting an ebay business on my blog. I agree there is a difference between selling junk around the house and starting a business, but just in the comments listed above there are some good ideas mentioned…

By: hejustlaughs

hejustlaughs — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:58:42 +0000

There are other side benefits to running a eBay business too.

Even if you’re low margin and you only profit a couple hundred a month if you use a rewards credit card for all expenses the rewards can add up.

The miles you earn each year from CC charges could easily be used for vacation purposes.

When I use to eBay it was a side hobby and worked into my routine as I didn’t mind carrying packages to be delivered on my daily walk to class.

By: irina

irina — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:50:24 +0000

I met someone tonight, actually, a retired pediatrician, who is 98 years old (!) who with his 62 years old son sells things on eBay. What do they sell? Tools! They buy them at a local flee market. He told me their profit margin was about 300%.

Last year, I posted on eBay one of my balloon sculptures of Borat for $10,000 LOL..I did it for publicity and to drive traffic to my blog. http://mylifeandart.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/11/borat_borart_ba.html

I had a few media interviews on that, including The Miami Herald (4th time!), and the traffic increased about 10 fold.

Now, this lady http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/
started by posting very simple items for sale on eBay. But because her posts where so entertaining they draw lots of traffic and people were forwarding it to each other. I think she stopped posting on eBay and began focusing on her blog and eventually got a book contract.

In this case, it doesn’t matter what you sell on eBay and it doesn’t matter if you sell it or not, as long as your post on eBay is entertaining.

This way you can draw traffic to your blog for pennies a day by linking to your blog from ABOUT ME page on eBay.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:43:16 +0000

I have a friend that had a rockin’ eBay business profiting about $80K/month until they changed their shipping policies a while back. Went from that to $2K/month and having to lay off all of his employees in about six months. There is definitely opportunity on eBay, but it can also be a pretty delicate business model when you’re dealing with penny profits.

By: OneFamilysBlog

OneFamilysBlog — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:16:16 +0000

One of our neighbors have a fairly successful ebay business. One example he said was about getting a shipment of 3000 RC cars from China for a few pennies each and selling them on ebay for $3 plus shipping. That sounded pretty good although having to ship 3000 items is a bummer.

Regards,
http://www.onefamilysblog.com

By: jj-momscashblog

jj-momscashblog — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:58:02 +0000

Hey Lazyman, Love the name!! I’ve often thought about getting rid of things (junk) that are just hanging around. I had at one time decided to simplify my life and thought that making money from eBay would be a good way to make a little extra cash. But I agree with you on the shipping, when I thought about packing each item up and bringing it to the P.O. that great idea went out the window. Good Post.

By: Mary Sue

Mary Sue — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:06:14 +0000

You may need a reseller certificate to do mass sales such as this.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:38:39 +0000

I once met a guy at eBay Live (their annual seller conference) who sold prints of public-domain photographs (pictures of landmarks, etc.). The photos are free, the printing is pretty cheap, and he sold them for $10 each, with a little extra profit on the shipping. His only expenses were a good inkjet printer, paper, ink, and shipping materials. I thought that was a pretty good little scheme…

By: Cheapo

Cheapo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:27:48 +0000

I have been having some pretty good luck with using eBay to make some money (nothing great enough to let me retire). I have been finding what the current “hot items” are on the market. For example a video game, a video game console, etc and then buying them from Best Buy or Circuit City with coupons. Then I will post them on eBay for what others have been selling the item for. Usually after fees I can bring in at least a $50 profit per item. Of course this will vary with the type of item, the demand for the item, etc. Main thing is to get hold of the hot selling hard to find items that people are willing to pay more for.

By: bubba

bubba — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:12:30 +0000

I just buy stuff on eBay and resell it on eBay for more. You have to choose your items you do this with carefully and keep track of the price fluxuations. I’m still not to the point I’m making alot of money, but I average about $30 profit per item I resell (after eBay and Paypal fees). Not quite enough to make a living, but good for some extra gas money.